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First published: Thursday, November 26th, 2009
8,500 words ~ spooky scale: ••••• 14+
The Great Northeast Blackout of 1965
“You know, there’s a whole bunch of kids’d give their right arm to be here. Out in the sun, on a desert island, with all the beaches and the sea…”
His mother waved her arm, scoping out the packing cases, the packets of food, the water containers and the other junk that cluttered the make-shift veranda in front of the wooden shack. And of course, the rocks and the spindly plants shirking in the cracks as the land tumbled down to the black beach and the sea.
“Yeah, but I never imagined it’d be like this. It’s so bo-o-oring. There’s nothing—”
“Look, I do not want this conversation now,” she said, hitching her bag onto her shoulder where it bounced against her backpack and slipped back off. Again.
She pulled on a lock of her hair, bleached nearly white and frazzled from the salt air and pinned it behind her ear. Again.
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black as snow Juliet has just moved to the country. She doesn’t like her new school, she doesn’t like living on a stinking farm where it always rains. Then she starts seeing a pony, waiting outside at night in the rain. And she’s sure it’s waiting for her...
Before she knows it, she is called on for help by a trio of strange creatures who live in the woods nearby. And then the rabbits... Oh yes, the rabbits.
Fantasy, comedy, and more than a touch of spookiness in this strange tale where things quickly get Black as Snow.
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